[ACL-Devel] tar file format?

[Mats Wichmann]

At 11:55 PM 04/11/2000 +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
>Michael Tokarev wrote:
>> 
>> Does anybody knows how the acl entries should be represented
>> in tar?
>
>The Posix 1003.1e working group did not issue any recommendations. To my best
>knowledge, there is an improved format being worked on (see the Austin group,
><http://www.opengroup.org/austin/>). I don't know anything about the
status or
>the area they will cover. There are also some other issues to be resolved,
>including maximum file size (there's a limit in tar that's reachable
today, for
>example).

The Austin Group effort is charged with only a unification of
viewpoints on some existing published standards (between
The Open Group, IEEE and ISO).  No "new development" is allowed
under the project authorization, and ACL's weren't in before.
There may be /other/ efforts in progress in this area, but not Austin.



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